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Attendees at “Homocon” universally attributed the rise of the gay right to the rising conservative tide generally.

“It really was the economy stupid. There’s a move to the right in general,” said Thiel, who was also an early investor in Facebook and is a prominent supporter of libertarian causes. An awful lot of Republicans want to get out of the gay issue in general.”

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Thiel compared the current gay rights’ strategy of allying itself with a single party to “trench warfare” in World War I, and argued that gay rights will benefit from a Republican Party that begins to compete for gay voters and donors.

Coulter’s presence at the event was controversial, as other gay activists pointed out that she’d made a series of anti-gay remark — she called former presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" — which she explained away at the top of her speech as humor.

“The people who get gay jokes are gays,” she said, adding that when she talks to Christian audience, “Out of sweetness they don’t laugh at the gay jokes.”

Coulter’s jokes Saturday riffed on the theme that GOProud doesn’t make same-sex marriage central to its appeal; it considers, Barron says, national security and the economy more important.

Marriage “is not a civil right – you’re not black,” Coulter said to nervous laughter. She went on to note that gays are among the wealthiest demographic groups in the country.

“Blacks must be looking at the gays saying, ‘Why can’t we be oppressed like that?’”

Coulter’s talk drew a mixed response, but her presence marked the increasingly mainstream Republican embrace of gay rights. Coulter had a falling out with a conservative website that has published her, WorldNetDaily, over her attendance. “She’s doing something important – she’s showing her base that it’s OK,” said one attendee, Michael Lucas. (Lucas also confided to a reporter, “I wonder what Ann will think about the fact that I am the biggest producer of gay porn on the East Coast and probably in the whole U.S.")

Attendees struggled to characterize the momentum they feel on the right at large and the gay rights in particular. One, radio host Tammy Bruce, who is on GOProud’s board, said the moment has the “same energy” as the radical ACT-UP protests in the 1980s, which drew attention to the AIDS crisis.

Another, former New York Log Cabin GOP chief Chris Taylor, said people are discovering what he’s always found self-evident: “I don’t see what being gay has to do with being socialist,” he said.

As for Coulter, she told POLITICO the embrace of gays on the right could only be reciprocated.

“Right wingers have always liked gays. Look at all of Ronald Reagan’s gay friends,” she said.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Ann Coulter suggested that former Sen. Joseph McCarthy was gay. Coulter says she did not intend to give that impression. The story also incorrectly reported when the Homocon fundraiser took place. It was on Saturday, Sept. 25th.

I wonder if Sharon Angle or Joe Miller from the Tea Party attended homocon. ^_^ I don't see Republicans giving a vote to end DADT, so the only way to over turn it is by following the lead of the Log Cabin Republicans and let the courts deep six the out date and unconstitutional act. DADT hurts unit cohesion and readiness, costs the tax payer money since they kick out people who have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in training, and it hurts national security.

I think there on to something here, should being gay mean you love being taxed to death. Should it mean you like government giving your money to people who don't earn it? Should it mean your for government telling you what you can eat, how you heat your home, what kind of cars you can buy? Should it mean your weak kneed and don't believe in the country protecting it self. In fact gays are just another useful vote for pandering democrats. Being fiscally conservative shouldn't mean giving up your freedoms to a government. Why would self respecting gays want that? Sure the country has been hostile to gays for a long time, but those times are changing, don't throw the country under the bus for the sake of a few quick gains, in the long run they aren't worth a darn if the whole country is damaged as democrats destroy our economy and way of life. Being who you are doesn't have to mean your a flaming liberal!

When a gay couple can physically have children naturally...then they may be considered to be married. Other than that, they should enjoy a civil union which should be acknowledged by the same legal benefits afforded to a marriage of a man and woman; a natural combination. Not rocket science.

There are a lot of gays who are against abortion, for instance. And understandably. If gayness is ever found to be genetic, then there will likely be soon thereafter prenatal tests to diagnose it in utero.

It must be such a tightrope as a Gay Conservative. Trying to agree with people who think you're abhorent and a blasphemy to the word of God, and should basically just die.

As long as those fiscal ties and a fear of the 'other' keep you as part of the group. Even though Gay has been grouped with 'other' for as long as I've been alive. I guess you can ignore that and grasp the few threads that bind you together.

think there on to something here, should being gay mean you love being taxed to death. Should it mean you like government giving your money to people who don't earn it? Should it mean your for government telling you what you can eat, how you heat your home, what kind of cars you can buy? Should it mean your weak kneed and don't believe in the country protecting it self. In fact gays are just another useful vote for pandering democrats. Being fiscally conservative shouldn't mean giving up your freedoms to a government. Why would self respecting gays want that? Sure the country has been hostile to gays for a long time, but those times are changing, don't throw the country under the bus for the sake of a few quick gains, in the long run they aren't worth a darn if the whole country is damaged as democrats destroy our economy and way of life. Being who you are doesn't have to mean your a flaming liberal!

Your post is hilarious, or Hi-Larious as Rachel would say. So being gay should mean you can't marry who you want and enjoy the benefits of a heterosexual union? So being gay should mean you can't volunteer to risk your life to serve your country? Pandering dems???? Really??? You don't think repubs are "pandering" to gays to try to get their vote? "Sure the country has been hostile to gays for a long time"?????? No, just parts of the country. Then there's the rest of us who see people as people. And yes, the times they are a changin except for those who want to deny citizens equal rights, which is most of the conservative wing of the GOP.

We need the gays. Gays will help the US in the struggle against the infiltration ot Islam. We must remember that Iran doesn't have any gays, according to Ahmadinejad. That probably explains Iran's awful window treatments and gauche table settings. And have you heard their muslim disco music! :(